Evaluation - Reflection

	Evaluation

	Process Examples Reflection Resources

Evaluation

Reflection

1. Identify rubric types

Matching exercise: Match definitions to rubric types. (Internet Explorer is recommended.)

2. Improve a rubric

Matching exercise: Identify the potential problems in a rubric. (Internet Explorer is recommended.)

3. Practice rating performance tasks

Market a Movie (Spanish) - Use a rubric to evaluate student work.

Write a New Ending (French) - Use a holistic and a multitrait rubric to evaluate student work and compare the feedback that each rubric provides to students.

Fables through Comics (French) - Use a holistic rubric to evaluate student work.

Fables through Comics (German) - Use a holistic rubric to evaluate student work.

4. Identify key criteria

Select an assessment task you will use or have used in class. Identify the key criteria to evaluate. Create or revise an appropriate rubric.
The list below includes common tasks used for assessment. Select one you would like to use and identify the key criteria to evaluate.

Some activities for oral performance assessments	Some activities for written performance assessments
anecdote ballad/rap/song book report campaign speech choral reading/speech debate demonstration dialogue discussion documentary dramatization explanation fairy tale free verse interview jingle/ad campaign joke lecture lesson mock interview monologue narration newscast recipe riddle role-play seminar skit weather report	advertisement biography book report booklet/brochure business letter cartoon celebrity profile checklist comic book commercial script comparison creative writing critique description dialogue diary/journal e-mail message editorial essay fairy tale/myth glossary guidebook handbook handout headline interview script job description joke journal lesson plan letter list log	lyrics magazine/news article metaphor movie review newsletter new story ending notes observation sheet outline pamphlet parody petition play poem poster prediction puppet show questionnaire quiz recipe report review riddle script short story slogan story problem survey telegram travel log yearbook entry
Blaz, Deborah. (2001). A collection of performance tasks and rubrics: Foreign languages. Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education.

5. Revise tasks and rubrics

Select an assessment task you evaluated with a rubric. Consider what worked and what didn't work. Did the task elicit a significant sample from the students? Were all of the evaluation criteria appropriate? Did performance descriptors fit with students' level and were they easy to apply? Identify changes you would make before using this assessment again.
Apply "Aunt Olive's rubric on rubrics" by Ned Miller to a rubric you created.